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REED BUNTING. 

 (Emberiza Schoeniclus.) 



E. capite nigro, corpore griseo nigroque, rectricibus extimis ma- 

 cula alba cuneiformi, 



Bunting with a black head, black and grey body, the outer tail- 

 feathers with a wedge-shaped white spot. 



Emberiza Schoeniclus. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1.311. 17. — Lin. Faun. 

 Suec. 231. — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 881.— Lath. Ind. Orn. 1.403. 

 13. 



Passer torquatus, seu arunclinaceus. Briss. 3. 274. 5. 



Ortolan de roseaux. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 315. — Buff. PL 



Enl. 247. 2. male. 477. 2. female. 

 Reed Bunting. Pen. Brit. Zool. 120.— Pen. Arct. Zool. 2. 368. 



e. — Albin. Birds. 2. 51. — Leivin. Brit. Birds. 2. 75. — Lath. 



Gen. Syn. 3. 173. 9. — Lath. Syn. Sup. 157. — Mont. Brit. 



Birds. 1. — Beiuick. Brit. Birds. 1. 145. 



The Black-headed, or Reed, Bunting is about 

 the size of the Yellow-hammer : its irides are hazel : 

 the head, throat, fore-part of the neck, and breast 

 black ; divided by a white line from each corner 

 of the beak, passing downwards and meeting on 

 the back part of the neck, which it nearly encircles : 

 upper parts of the body and wings reddish brown* 

 each feather with a black streak down the middle : 

 under parts white, with brownish streaks on the 

 sides : quills dusky, margined with brown : rump 

 and upper tail-coverts blueish ash-colour, mixed 

 with brown : two middle tail-feathers black, with 

 pale brown edges \ two outer ones almost white, 

 the ends tipped with brown, and the bases black j 



